Definitions for Eskimos

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Eskimos Es·ki·mo

Spelling: [es-kuh-moh]

IPA: /ˈɛs kəˌmoʊ/

Eskimos is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 125 anagrams from letters in Eskimos (eikmoss).

Definitions for Eskimos

noun

1. a member of an indigenous people of Greenland, northern Canada, Alaska, and northeastern Siberia, characterized by short, stocky build and light-brown complexion.
2. either of two related languages spoken by the Eskimos, one in Greenland, Canada, and northern Alaska, the other in southern Alaska and Siberia.

Origin of Eskimos

1575-85; Esqimawe(s), apparently via French (of 16th-century Basque fishermen) Spanish esquimao(s) Montagnais (French spelling) aiachkimeou- a name for the Micmac, extended or transferred to

Examples for Eskimos

The people arose and welcomed us as eskimos always do, most cordially.

What to do with the majestic but little seen The White Dawn (1974), a story of stranded whalers rescued by eskimos in the Arctic.

Gold-bearing creeks and rivers were little thought of by the eskimos.

There is a persistent and erroneous belief that the eskimos have 50 (or 70, or 300) words for snow.

Love is not essential to a happy marriage among the eskimos.

Whenever he did so one or the other, or both of the eskimos were gazing stolidly at him.

Easton and I were unarmed, but the eskimos each carried a 45-90 Winchester rifle.

One of the eskimos rose and removed a piece of bacon from a nail in the wall.

The strange eskimos were the pilots that brought her from Fort Chimo.

Of course, Morgan can sell movies about ice formations to the eskimos.